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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Walls.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What excited Angela Davis during her freshman year at college?
(a) Herbert Marcuse's classes.
(b) James Baldwin's lectures.
(c) Demonstrations in France.
(d) The prospect of traveling to Europe.

2. How does Angela Davis explain the press's coverage of herself and her co-defendant?
(a) She things they want to destroy any solidarity between them.
(b) She thinks they are trying to reduce them to hysterical women.
(c) She thinks they are intent on building up their radicalism.
(d) She things they are trying to paint them as lunatics.

3. What did Richard Arnason do for Angela Davis?
(a) Prevented her from writing about her trial.
(b) Eased some restraints on her imprisonment.
(c) Returned her to solitary confinement.
(d) Set bail.

4. Why didn't Angela Davis feel she could identify with Malcolm X?
(a) Because she was not militant.
(b) Because she was not Muslim.
(c) Because she was not male.
(d) Because she was not poor.

5. What was the relationship between the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee and the Communist Party?
(a) They competed for members, but forced their members to choose between parties.
(b) They worked together on political project, but the Communists worked alone in economic cases.
(c) The two parties worked together.
(d) The SNCC did not want to be associated with Communists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis's family move when Angela Davis was four?

2. Who was with Angela Davis when the book begins?

3. Why was Angela Davis nervous about leaving her location?

4. Where did Angela Davis go from Chicago?

5. Where was Angela Davis when the book began?

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